Takara sat confused amid her fellow first years. Wow, so many faces! She’d have to get introduced to all of them. She took note of as many names as she could, but quickly lost track.
Adachi Chen,
Mizuhana Yoshiba,
Ookouchi Yachiyo,
Chikai Yuki, and, well, a bunch of others. Wow, it sure was crowded all of a sudden. She’d intended to introduce herself to, uh, Yoshiba (Yeah! That’s right!) and then meet some of the others afterward. There was probably going to be some sort of group introduction at the beginning of classes, directly or not. Whew, now there was some creep leaning over her to grin at Yoshiba. Yikes. Oh, now he was talking about Tokyo?
Hey! I’m from Tokyo!Then some other kid, Yuki (Yeah! That was right too!), piped up about Tokyo too!
”Hey! I’m from Tokyo too! I’m Katō Takara!”Takara practically shouted it at the Tokyo crowd. Her excitement was clear in her voice, and the way she swiveled to view the Tokyo crowd was a bit too quick to be mistaken for anything else. But she couldn’t see any girls in the Tokyo crowd right now aside from some girl from Okayama, which was a bit disappointing. She caught her name,
Rin, just at the end of whatever it was that she was saying.
”I’m from Ryōgoku! What district are you guys from?”Takara flexed her arms with excitement, pumping one in the air to express pride in where she lived. It was, admittedly, a weird place for someone like her to live, but considering her connection to Sumo, it wasn’t that surprising. It was mostly so her father wouldn’t have to commute far, but it made things a little more difficult for Takara and her mother. But still, it was her home and
plus it was the world’s best place for Sumo, so of
course she’d be proud to live there! Who wouldn’t?